Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption


Came across this today. A lot of posts bring up the issue of "how much is enough?" or "when is audio consumption justified" etc.

Does this Nietzsche aphorism apply to audio buying? You be the judge! 

Friedrich Nietzsche“Danger in riches. — Only he who has spirit ought to have possessions: otherwise possessions are a public danger. For the possessor who does not know how to make use of the free time which his possessions could purchase him will always continue to strive after possessions: this striving will constitute his entertainment, his strategy in his war against boredom. 

Thus in the end the moderate possessions that would suffice the man of spirit are transformed into actual riches – riches which are in fact the glittering product of spiritual dependence and poverty. They only appear quite different from what their wretched origin would lead one to expect because they are able to mask themselves with art and culture: for they are, of course, able to purchase masks. By this means they arouse envy in the poorer and the uncultivated – who at bottom are envying culture and fail to recognize the masks as masks – and gradually prepare a social revolution: for gilded vulgarity and histrionic self-inflation in a supposed ‘enjoyment of culture’ instil into the latter the idea ‘it is only a matter of money’ – whereas, while it is to some extent a matter of money, it is much more a matter of spirit.” 

Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1996. Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits. Cambridge University Press. (p. 283-4, an aphorism no. 310)

I'm pretty sure @mahgister will want to read this one! (Because they speak so artfully about avoiding the diversion that consumption poses to the quest for true aesthetic and acoustic excellence.)

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@mahgister

Interesting video.

It reminds me a old science fiction movie . The Forbiden Planet.

Don’t laught . In this movie , Dr Mobius connected his brain to a device that

grows his intelligence many time . He is then connected to an extreme powerfull

machine . What he doesn’t know is that his subconcious is also linked to this machine. So even the greatest intellectual habilities , are not able to tame the

´´ ID ´´ , the primitive subconscious drives. And the more power , this intelligence

masters , the more deadly is the outcome for the society .

 

Great movie....

This movie illustrate well, like no other since, the negative side of technology in his own "psychoanalytic" way... It is not so archaic reading about technology upside down effect than some people could think....

My best to you....

 

 

We define ourselves ( and our level ) by our possessions.( and possesions of others ) Marketing industries play with that.

It is driven by the subconscious . Put these in geopardy and the subconscious

surfaces . You can loose everything. But you can’t loose your education.

But with sociaty , we define ourself by the level of enviability ( privileges  )that we represent.

King Crimson
Nothing he’s got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Except for my audio systeme !

It’s all too easy to call these experimental injections vaccines. I often fall into that trap myself by force of habit.

However since they neither immunize or vaccinate it’s a claim a little too far fetched.

I’ve noticed although our own beleaguered PM (Boris Johnson) has suddenly switched the emphasis from "vaccinated" to "helps lessen the symptoms", he still often calls them vaccines.

Right now he seems to have quite a bit on his plate, most likely courtesy of his one time ally, Dominic Cummings.

Interesting times indeed.

 

@mahgister ,

It is an economical power war not an health war.... It is about the end of freedom like in China...

That is the matter...

 

Well it has to be this way when you’re running out of non nuclear armed opposition.

Most current wars are economic or psychological.

Can’t see that changing anytime soon.

This is where the realm of the subconscious becomes so important.

In particular, how to influence, shape and control it.

I wouldn’t like to guess what the marketing budgets of big pharma et al is these days, but I do know that most of the research into unconscious consumer behaviour is funded by them.

No doubt they’d call it R&D.

What’s a few trillion dollars here and there?

Nietszche is right, owning something weigh on us, and without strong spirit someone is at risk to be crush spiritually by his own possession...

But here N. reveal his own christianity, he repeated what Jesus simply reminded us, many centuries before him, by speaking about the joyful and free poor and the infelicitous rich...

And Klaus Schwab when claiming that tomorrow "people will own nothing and be happy" did not give us here a christian recipe to become man of spirit but seriously propose the erasing of freedom itself in a global totalitarian move...

The actual crisis is not about health, and not even about money, after all money is only a printable paper sheet and no more a contract back by something with a real value... The actual crisis is not at all about  health or money, save for sleepwalking people, it is about control and freedom...All the last 2 years reveal it clearly to everyone...

We must be free to own and free to give up and free to keep...No one can say to us that we will no more be free to own anything and we will be happy....

The essence of spirit is freedom and love....These three words revealing from three vantage points the only one truth....